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The Interstate 6TL my truck came with were new in 2008. One was dead in 2009 and I used the other one for a while for another application; now dead, too. I replaced them with Costco Group 27 batteries and am not looking back. The room I freed up in the battery compartment houses my 8t bottle...

They drove the truck into the forest fairly slowly and it would just push down whichever tree they hit and crawl over it. They said that they pushed down a total of about 250 tons of lumber while creating a truck-wide path where they were going. What fascinated me was the way the axles...

By chance, I found myself watching this episode and was on the verge of tears! Breaking Point These guys obtained a pristine up-armored M54 with a massive protective cage and first tested what the thing was capable of. That was the fun part. It cut a swath through the forest, snapping and...

Ingenious. I have hand-crank-started a 3 liter 4 cyl air-cooled genset engine and portable fire pumps with the 1200 and 1600 ccm air cooled VW engines for years and years. Here is a pic: http://www.zoll-auktion.de/auktion/daten/bilder_auktionen/215137_2.jpg None of this compares to trying and...

Good advice in this thread. I recovered my truck, unknown to me, after three days of PM and a few small repairs and drove it long-distance. I had never driven an M35 before (but numerous other, bigger, trucks). It was in the summer. Nevertheless, I took a significant risk and I knew that. I did...

Ok, two different things: An M35A2C means it has a dropside bed. Correct, the truck in your ad is a dropside. A "C Turbo" refers to the model of the turbocharger installed - has nothing to do with whether the truck itself is a C model or not. Any M35 can have a "C" or "D" model turbo and the...

170 on mine in "normal" weather, running empty. 200 with winter front on in the summer (with flap open, as in my avatar). Barely reaching 160 without winter front when it is cold (around freezing).

Interesting info. Hey - domestic pickups have crappy steel, who knew??? [thumbzup] If I understand correctly, though, steel quality does not matter; it is the fact that the frame flexes that makes welding (at least on the portions that flex) a no-no.

It is commonly referred to as a "winter front"; also used with the arctic kit. I use it because even when it is moderately cold (still above freezing), coolant temp hardly reaches 160, especially on highway runs.

Oh, well...it is this time of the year. "Queen Lola" spends the winter in a (heated) former factory hall. It is getting cold here and we'll get snow this week. I do not want to bathe the truck in salt water and so I'll only troll the forum over the winter. I am already missing going for drives!

Yes, that is what I meant by J-pipe. In your first picture, you can see the master cylinder sitting in front and above the thick air pack. I,too, should have been more descriptive and called the slim cylinder "the hydraulic part of the air pack". My air pack never had brake fluid leak into the...

The airpack is the fat round thingy. The slim round thingy is the master cylinder and we all hope that it is indeed full of brake fluid. The fitting on top is the bleeder nipple - when you bleed your brakes, you always bleed the master cylinder first, and now you know where to do that! It would...

In all fairness, many members on this site have been in the mindspace you are in right now. I prescribe 4 hours of daily SteelSoldiers forum reading, to get answers to questions you did not even know you have. As far as your thoughts (questions?) above are concerned, if you went out to throw a...

Fuel return line at the injector. Because I know that I installed fittings with inserts, I could just tighten 1/2 turn and the leak stopped.

And I thought you loaded the Deuce with wood, so it would float better in your mud puddles!

Sit down in front of your truck and get a good view of the front axle. Locate the "pumpkin" where the differential sits. Now look on top of the axle beam, to the side of the pumpkin, and look for the silvery looking little mushroom thingy. That is the axle vent. Its anatomy is explained in the...

What you describe sounds similar to my experience. My Multi starts on the first revolution in the summer. Now, temperatures around freezing or just below, it will crank for about 5 seconds (which feels like an eternity when you are used to immediate starts). I crank it at WOT (pedal to the...

I am quite sure that this is an antenna mount. Why it is mounted there and why it is mounted sideways, I do not know.

shovelheadmike, You did a smooth looking install there! I like the narrow clearances and the way you boxed the rails makes the thing very sturdy; likely better than the military winch install. Have you used the winch, yet and put some serious load on it? The front view is a real "this is what...

...because an XL coffee fits into it perfectly, the nut is heavy enough to sit on the flat middle tunnel beside the gearshift and will not budge, even on a rough country highway. :-))